Life
She grew up in the Bronx and Far Rockaway; she is a lifelong New Yorker.
In 1973 her first book of poetry, Armed Love, was nominated for a National Book Award. Much attention came to this new and lauded poet. In one of the more controversial reviews of her work, the New York Times described her first book as "XX rated" for its frank discussion of sexuality and gender. Although Lerman published a second book in 1975, she stopped publishing poetry in response to the backlash against her work.
She published her third book of poetry twenty-five years later in 2001 when Sarabande Books commissioned The Mystery of Meteors. Sarabande also published her fourth book of poetry, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2006, given by the American Academy of Poets and The Nation magazine. In awarding the prize, Tony Hoagland cited Lerman's "vernacular resilience."
For one of her recent books, The Blonde on the Train, the author has experimented with creating a web site devoted specifically to the book and its contents, including excerpts: http://www.blondeonthetrain.com
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